658 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION G. 



sits on tlip P(lg'e of the cave hole and ])uts in agahi the 

 core. 



" Teramsamus runs nnd runs and feels hung-er biting- him 

 greatly and looks up at that makopo and sees it hanging, says, 

 ' Let me pluck the makopo and cook and eat it and be 

 satisfied and search for my food ' (the people who had escajied 

 from the cave). He goes and takes wood and heaps it 

 tog-ether and climbs and plucks the makopo and comes down 

 and lays on the fire and cooks it. '^riie youngsters feel the 

 steam, which is kilUng- them. Matiktiki says (teUing them 

 what to do. The youngsters do his bidding) and the fire 

 goes out. Teramsumus takes away the breadfruit and lays it 

 down and goes and looks again for wood. They pull out the 

 core and come out and put the core in again and run and run 

 and look up at a she-oak tree and see it standing inland they 

 run inland (?). Matiktiki says, ' Hasten for the she-oak.' 

 They hasten and hasten and come just there below. Climb- 

 ing np it they go all to the top. Matiktiki has already seaterl 

 himself in the fork of the tree. 



" Tr-ramsrimus looks for them, and was going hither and 

 thither, and goes up and looks down into a pool of water. 

 Matiktiki tosses frequently his crest of feathers. Te ramsfim us 

 (seeing Matiktiki reflected in the ])ool) springs down and 

 splashes in the water-hole and comes up and was standing. 

 Matiktiki says, ' Youngsters ! laugh.' The youngsters 

 laugh and say, ' Hoe ! What are you doing there after 

 having ran hither and thither .'' ' He says, ' Alas ! My 

 children. How do they make it to go there.'*' They say, 

 ' We went on the palms of our hands.' He goes there on 

 his hands and splits them, and says ' Alas I have split and 

 spoilt my hands. How do you always doit.'" They say, 

 ' We went on the soles of our feet.' (The same thing befel 

 his feet, his head, and his knees). Matiktiki says, ' We 

 went on this thing,' and lets down a small rope to which he 

 hangs on and goes up and cannot make the fork of the tree, 

 says, ' Alas my food ! You do tease me.' Matiktiki takes 

 a fufau and cuts in two the small rope, and lie falls down and 

 strikes on the ground. 



" They send forth a black dove ; it goes and shouts into his 

 ear, and finds that he lies and is silent. They send a bronze- 

 wing dove, and it wails and finds that he lies and is silent. 

 They send a mlah/ (an ant whose bite is very painful) ; it bites 

 him and sees that he lies and is silent. They send a 

 kauyameta (see divisions of Tanna ; a smnH black bird 



